May 14th, 2025
14 May 2025 · page 1243 of 1306
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Blake Thackerey, Bryony Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Harriet Barber, Henry Barber, Isabelle Holt, Jack O'Malley
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Succeeding would be a disaster. Failing might be even worse.
There is also that.
twins i hate to tell you… pride is getting you so bad for sure
So much Pride. Not to mention a good portion of Self-Righteousness.
I feel like envy is in there too, they give off a lot of insecurity to me. They’re desperate not to fail or be seen as incompetent.
Maybe they have more in common with Ben than any of them think.
That’s what I was thinking too! Ben struggled with insecurity a lot, but having to actually confront it made him a lot more mature in the long run. The twins have more professional success and natural talent at magic, but failure terrifies them because they’ve never had to deal with it.
Without Greed, any capitalist civilisation collapse.
That’s every civilization, ever.
I should probably explain how a predatory system tends to erase any other, present or past, but i deem this foolish.
Enjoy the end of the world as you know it.
Hope we’ll feel fine.
Every shopkeeper has to have a bit of avarice to want to make money by selling things. That’s not capitalism, but mercantilism and it goes back to Sumer and Egypt. The first food vendor in ancient days had it.
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
She does seem a bit strange, yes.
Strictle speaking, and in historical context, supreme executive power derives from a dignified, terrestrial ceremony. And primogeniture. And only occasionally organised violence.
That’s a good point - it would have the effect of mind control, wouldn’t it? And without a failsafe word like Dr Flack’s method had.
was hoping someone would draw the line between this idea and flack’s, that was what i was going for!
Having Eliza be the one yelling about mind control definitely made the connection easier to spot!
Every time someone says “we’d be better off without (insert negative emotion),” I think about the 2005 movie “Serenity,” and how trying to remove aggression from a population led to a horrendous outcome.
And I agree with the Captain about it.
“As sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world. Maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people...better. And I do not hold to that.
So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.”
“I ain’t gonna kill you. I’m gonna grant your greatest wish. I’m gonna show you a world without sin.”
And that was the worst thing he could do to The Operative.
Goshdarn it make me happy to see someone reference that ^^
And yeah, all to easy to imagine how removing one would have consequences, let alone all.
Blake and Bryony, does HRH Victoria know that “It is the opinion of the crown that this is no emergency”?, because I am pretty sure that the two of you are NOT authorized to make that judgement without her input. And if that is what you are doing, that seems like a large enough display of pride to prove you wrong.
“The crown” is an often used phrase in the UK to mean the government or the state, rather than the queen herself.
Fair enough. But the underlying question still stands - are these two really likely to have the authority to definitively speak for the crown without consulting someone higher up the chain of command?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
I'm reminded of the StarTrek episode The Enemy Within, where Kirk gets split into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ versions. The ‘good’ version is too ineffectual to be a leader. You need some elements of the sins as part of a balanced character. Mind you, Kirk could do with the Lust part turned down a bit.
Kirk could do with a wallop upside the head, or being told “No!” and getting smacked on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper, tbh.
I remember our HR manager at my old firm saying that apart from Picard, no-one in Star Trek was fit to be in charge of a tea-trolley, let alone a star ship.
Well, I was wondering about how often Picard was shown handling some tea …
Ah, yes. The “wages of sin” argument. Used by politicians for 8000 years and counting to dismiss some societal issue as “it’s the own fault of the sufferers” and “it’s self-resolving.”
Except the former is always a bit blind in measuring all people involved, and the latter is never true. On-going issues among a group of social individuals tend to go on on-going, as long as there are new individuals to join the group…
The concept of ‘sin’ is a mere construct used by the powerful to oppress The People! Mr Luxuria explains…
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6729022
Just realized those two are literally wearing Pride’s color!
not to mention, I’m pretty sure all the 7 deadly sins are only “deadly” or even “sins” when excessive. If you took away all of gluttony, would nobody ever be hungry, and everybody starve? All of lust, and no one would even love? If you took away all of envy and greed, perhaps you would rid the world of ambition!
And shopkeepers.
…But dry witches are okay?
Somebody hold my coat.
Now hold the twins’ arms.
I’m going to educate them in the benefit of expressing wrath in a controlled environment to clear the mind… by smacking them repeatedly upside their gormless heads until they swear to shut up. =_=
So why did they rescue these guys from the river again?
So that they can present a fake Pride for Thea to destroy … ?
“You did what?? I never would have thought that that was a fake … !”